Today’s liberal arts knowledge opening the better tomorrow!
The wisdom of the new age presented by Roh, Hae Chan, Kim, Dae Shik, Kim, Hyung Jeong, Byun Young Joo, and Jeong Hye Shin
In today’s society, which is rapidly changing and getting complicated, people say they just manage their own life not to be behind every single day. However, at the same time, more people than ever are eager to want the society to get better and to wish their own lives to be happier. What they need for healthier life, and more righteous society is ‘wisdom’ going beyond knowledge. In particular, it is hard for each individual to judge what is right or what is wrong these days due to the flood of information, therefore, we really need timely wisdom under difficult society.
Continuous lectures held in the first half of 2018, which became the basic of ‘The Age of Wisdom’, were so popular to many citizens enough to record the sold-out even under bone-chilling cold weather. This proves that many people have deeply considered how to make better future going beyond just surviving day by day. After facing with heated popularity at the scene, the authors reorganized their lecture contents with some extra addition, and published the book by including ‘Q&A’ for the questions they couldn’t answer at the podium.
‘In front of separation called death’ Jeong, Hye Shin
The mind wounds caused by the death of someone we love, how should we respond?
The true way for healing suggested by Jeong, Hye Shin, ‘The Doctor of the Street’
As a professional psychiatrist, the author has healed the mind wounds of traumatic victims in our society, including unemployed workers and the loved ones of victims of Sewol ship, and now she deals with the theme of death. Through the deaths the author has directly and indirectly experienced for a long time, she tries to teach people how to respond to the sufferings after losing someone they love. The author emphasizes the fact that no one can avoid the separation with his or her loved ones in lifetime, and we have to be able to cry out loud and to be mourning as much as we need.
‘The State We Dream Of’ Roh Hoe-Chan
We should keep going forward! Roh, Hoe Chan who was freeman, cultural man, and man who admires peace.
What is the challenge and solution he has left in our society.
The late lawmaker, Roh, Hoe Chan, who died in July, 2018, has devoted himself to the liberal party movements since he began labor movement as a student. And during his years as a lawmaker, he has represented the socially weak, and presented the politics to the public with his brilliant communication skill. The author diagnoses that today’s Korean society is now passing the turning point since the candle revolution, and we all can keep going forward only after we resolve the current issues. The current issues he tells are to settle down the fairness, equality, and peace in our society, and to do so, we have to change our politics. That means we have to reorganize the vote system for the National Assembly to represent their people’s strong will. The author also asks readers to continue to participate in the politics just like they used to hold candles in front of the City Hall.
‘A good society makes a good movie.’
The story about the movies and creation from Byun, Young Joo, a movie director.
The author, Byun, Young Joo, has deeply studied the real scenes of modern society so far, and begins the story by looking at the relationship between the movies and our society. A movie is one of the public arts dominated by society, so good movies can be made from a good society.
Therefore, preliminary review on movies, and supports on independent movies can be good examples of showing how our society has affected on the movies. The author tries to fix the misunderstanding about Korean movie industry such as screen monopoly, and suggests that what we really need is to organize the system of Korean movie industry.
‘Move the world by news’ Kim, Hyun Jeong
There is ‘truth’ outside the news frame!
How to sort out real news in the middle of fake news flood.
At first, the author was not an expert in current affairs field as a PD of music program. However, she taught herself how to read the real news, which is ‘to think outside the box of the common news frame’. ‘News’ cannot help but being trapped by certain frames decided by a reporter or media company, even if the ‘news’ is a fact. Therefore, no one can guarantee that the fact presented by news reporting is true. Through this book, citizens will be able to abandon their prejudice thinking beyond the news frame and look at one issue based on diverse points of view, thereby reaching the truth beyond the fact.
‘Surviving from the 4th industrial revolution’ Kim, Dae-Shik, AlphaGo is just the beginning.
In the future when machines can replace intellectual labor, what should humans choose?
The professor, Kim, Dae-Shik, from KAIST, who has been the frontier to spread the concept of brain science to the public, objectively points out the current status of the 4th industrial revolution beginning from AI in this book. The author provides several examples, including AlphaGo, to show us the level of AI and robot technology, originally created by our natural desire of somebody doing my job instead of me, has escalated, and in particular, how AI has dramatically leapt forward thanks to deep learning for the current several years.